But when a patient walked in with a tapeworm of over 5 feet in length this past August, it was enough to make Banh stop in ...

The Chinese woman is believed to have become infected after eating undercooked beef while travelling in south-east Asia A woman had this 8ft-long (2.5-metre) tapeworm removed from her stomach ...

Intestinal infection by an adult tapeworm is called taeniasis. In humans, although the tapeworm can cause an upset stomach, it can also be asymptomatic—apart from rice grain-sized eggs in the feces.